• Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited

Electric Rope Shovel

Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), one of the largest integrated engineering complexes in India, manufactures and supplies capital equipment and machinery and renders project execution services for core sector industries. The company offers an Electric Rope Shovel as part of its mining equipment portfolio. One of first Indian heavy mining shovels manufactured and rolled out of assembly line was from HEC works in the year 1966. This rugged machine became very popular in Indian mining industry (coal and iron ore) and can be seen in almost all open cast mines of India. The machine was upgraded from 4.6 cu.m to 5-cu.m capacities with centralised lubrication system. The company has complete manufacturing set up starting from castings and forgings, fabrication, machining, assembly and testing – all located at one location backed by a strong design, engineering and technology team. It has contributed in the indigenisation and expansion of steel plants and modernisation of coal sector. It has saved valuable foreign exchange for the country, as most of the products manufactured by it are import substitute in nature. The company has special focus in the following sectors: steel plant equipment, power, space application, mining equipment, railways, nuclear energy, machine tools, and defence.